Suzanne Price Books in Order

If you want the full series arc: Scene of The Grime → Dirty Deeds → Notoriously Neat
If you like small-town cozy mysteries: Scene of The Grime → Dirty Deeds
If you want the later book with the strongest romance thread: Scene of The Grime → Notoriously Neat

Suzanne Price is the joint pen name of Jerome Preisler and Suzanne Preisler. Under that name, they wrote the three Grime Solvers Mystery novels, a short run of cozy mysteries published from 2007 to 2009 and built around cleaner and columnist Sky Taylor in seaside Pigeon Cove.

Jerome is a Brooklyn native, and his writing life started early. Around age ten or eleven, he began a science fiction, fantasy, and horror novel, first in longhand and then on an old manual typewriter he taught himself to use. The draft ran to 138 single-spaced pages, which tells you he was not dabbling.

He started young, and he kept at it.

By his late twenties, Jerome decided to treat writing as a profession. Under his own name he went on to publish more than twenty books of fiction and narrative nonfiction, including the bestselling Tom Clancy's Power Plays novels, Net Force: Dark Web, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep, and All Hands Down. He has also written a baseball column, "Deep in the Red," which gives a good sense of his range.

That range matters. Jerome's solo work often deals with teams, systems, investigations, and people who have to think on their feet. Even when the mood shifts from military suspense to lighter mystery, that instinct for pace and structure stays in place. The books move.

Suzanne brings a different set of experiences to the partnership. She once worked as the floral designer for La Côte Basque, the storied New York restaurant, and later moved into mystery writing with Jerome. One partner came in with a long background in thrillers and research. The other came from a world built on detail, timing, and presentation.

Together, they took a sharp turn into cozy crime.

Readers who come to Scene of The Grime, Dirty Deeds, and Notoriously Neat usually find brisk plots, a light comic touch, and a heroine whose job gives her unusual access to trouble. Sky Taylor is not a detective by trade. She is a widowed cleaner rebuilding her life, and that makes the books feel more grounded than their punning titles first suggest.

The trilogy also shows how flexible this writing team could be. Scene of The Grime begins with Sky accidentally wiping down a murder scene. Dirty Deeds threads murder through holiday parties and city hall. Notoriously Neat ties a dead veterinarian to a local singing group. The stakes stay local, but the storytelling never gets sleepy.

If you read across the whole bibliography, the link is easy to see. Tom Clancy's Power Plays and Net Force: Dark Web lean into pressure and momentum. The Grime Solvers books keep that momentum but shrink the stage to inns, town offices, vet clinics, and small-town friendships. The pair's published bios have long linked them to New York and coastal New England, and both places leave a mark on the work. There is city sharpness in the plotting, but the Suzanne Price books run on seaside routines, gossip, and the awkward intimacy of a place where everyone knows everyone else's business.